There were lots of section playoff byes and other teams that didn’t play last week, but there was one result from the CIF Southern Section first round — Palos Verdes of PV Estates falling to Loyola in D4 — that caused some changes to this week’s medium schools rankings. For small schools, we have come...
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NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
The only newcomer this week is Capital Christian of Sacramento in the medium schools top 15. Teams moving up include Palos Verdes and Hanford for medium plus Ripon, Rio Hondo Prep and Kennedy of Richmond for small. The trick for these rankings will be to evaluate teams that have to play up against much bigger...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Since we are always looking for performances that could qualify for the Cal-Hi Sports Record Book, or for players that don’t always get a lot of props, the fact all three honorees from Southern California are from unbeaten teams, and two of three from Northern California are from unbeatens, is a bit of an anomaly. […]
All-State FB Nominees (Part 1)
We’re going to begin selection of the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams a little earlier than before and hope to have all nominations lists posted by next week. This first group of players who have been placed on our board of nominees are from the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF North Coast Section, […]
A few more State Stat Stars of Week
We didn’t do a column this week, but wanted to record these totals onto the site from last week’s football games. This list doesn’t include any SoCal/NorCal players of the week and for those from the CIF Central Section see separate post on this blog. Even more players are mentioned in our various State Top […]
CIF Bowl Board No. 1 (North)
Here’s a first look at how the teams may begin to be stacking up for this year’s CIF Northern California regional bowl games. We build these boards from the top down and from the bottom going up with the toughest choices for the middle divisions. All of these teams should be viewed as place-holders in […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This week’s first selections for the 2017 football season truly covers the length of California with QBs Daniel Jeremiah of El Cajon Christian and T.J. Campbell from St. Bernard’s of Eureka among those chosen. We’ll continue to do offense, defense and special teams (six players in all) but this year all of the writeups will […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
A tremendous group of defensive linemen highlights this year’s top group from the CIF Central Coast Section. We put five on first team and there’s some other great ones we had to put on second but are among the best DLs in Northern California. Milpitas leads the way with five honorees and if we were...



